Seekers of the Fox by Kevin Sands

Author:Kevin Sands [Sands, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2022-10-18T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 32

She couldn’t have survived that blast. Nothing could.

“No!” Distraught, Lachlan tried to dive in after her, as if there were anything left of her to find. Meriel held him back. “Let me go! Foxtail!”

Meriel clung to him. It was half restraint, half hug. “It’s too late,” she said, deathly pale.

Except . . . it wasn’t. Gareth stared into the murk. “Look.”

Swimming toward us, mask reflecting our light globes, was Foxtail.

Stunned, Meriel let Lachlan go. He jumped up and down, screaming with glee as Foxtail emerged from the water. She began wringing out her dress nonchalantly, as if she’d just come in from a walk in the rain. Lachlan slammed into her with a hug so hard they nearly toppled back into the lake. Gareth wiped a hand across his face, still pale, as Meriel and I wrapped them in our own joyous embrace.

I covered the Eye. Partly because I was getting a little dizzy, but mostly because I was pretty sure Foxtail didn’t like being around it. “How did you survive that blast?” I said.

Foxtail wagged her finger from side to side. She made two fists, as if holding on to something, then released them. I wasn’t in the blast. I let go of the knives, and the sharks chased the blood.

I hadn’t seen any of that—and of course I hadn’t, because the Eye couldn’t see Foxtail at all. I laughed, delighted. But even as I did, I realized something else about Foxtail, too.

She’d been out of our air bubble for a couple minutes. Yet standing in front of us, her chest wasn’t even heaving. Which meant her mask not only shielded her from the Eye’s sight, it let her breathe, even underwater.

Foxtail looked at me, and though of course I couldn’t see her expression, something in the way she moved said she could tell I’d just figured that out. She stood there, hesitant, almost cautious, as if waiting for me to say something bad.

I took her by the shoulders. “That,” I said, “was the most heroically insane thing I ever saw.”

She relaxed, as if relieved.

Then she patted my cheek.

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